The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-05
Farm and Stock Notes.


Twelve hundred head of sheep sold in Eng
land lately for SIS, 900, the highest price on
record at a large sale,
p, j. Berckmans, of Augusta, Ga, says
that the Kelsey Japan plum is as hardy as
the Wild Goose if worked ON native plum
stock.
Roots are excellent for sheep in winter,
and are especially important with heavy
grain-feeding to keeping the digestive organs
in full vigor.
The Seckel pear is the best in quality of
all pears. 1t is a slow grower however, and
it should therefore he grated on some
stronger stock.
Ashes make a good mulch for the ounce
bush during the winter. In the spring rake
the ashes over the soil as far as the roots
extend and apply a little salt. A good re-
turn will be made in fruit.
Oats or ensilage are favored in England
when corn Goes not thrive. Experiments
at Newhurn show oat ensilage to be better
than roots for fattening, and much better
than good hay either dry or ensilaged.
The necessity of keeping the sheep on dry
footing should not be forgotten. A yard in
which sheep are kept should be one where
there is plenty of drainage. Wet footing
is the one thing that sheep will not stand.
1t has been demonstrated that calves pay
better when kept until ten or twelve weeks
old than when sold as soon as born. They
will give a return for all the milk they CON
sumo, as well as lessen the supply of milk
marketed.
One of the experiment stations decided
last year that soaking seed-oats for about
two days in solution of 'sulphate of cop
per-four ounces in a gallon of water--pre-
vented the appearance of smut in the crop
There may be something i'll it.
The Rural knows of a case occurring
within two weeks where, at its suggestion,
some fifty lice-infested chicks were cleansed
in an hour by the use of pyrethrum powder
1t is a safe, positive, clearly and easily ap-
piled remedy. Try it, readers, but be sure
you get fresh powder ..
Among the trees most troublesome to
drains, III respect to filing them with their
roots, are the willow, elm and poplar. The
common locust (Robinia pSeudGcacjo)
should never be planted near wells. 1t i'm
parts disagreeable taste to the water. The
inner bark is poisonous e 7oe67c'i43' so
The carrot has more fattening qualities
than other roots. and for this reason is par
ticularly adapted to sheep, young cattle and
all animals intended for meat. Carrots will
help to fatten animals quickly and with less
cost than other roots, and quick fattening
produces tender and juicy meat.
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that he began planting white pines i'll 1857,
and planted them by the thousand trees.
They are now large enough for pretty good
saw logs and seem to be quite at home in
Iowa. He settled ON his farm twenty years
ago and is completely sheltered by pine
forest.
1t is fact that strong nest of humble
bees in big clover-feld is worth $40 to the
owner, for these insects are the chief agents
in fertilizing the blossom, thereby insuring
heavy crop of seed. In Australia there
are no bumble-bees of our kind, and they
could not raise clover-seed until they inn
ported some.
1t is thought that at no distant day the
culture of the olive oil will become one of
the most important as well as profitable
fields of horticultural enterprise with us, as
it is at present with many countries in the
south of Europe, whose chief revenue is
derived from the export of olive oil and
picked olives
An eminent writer says that cream is an
innocent, palatable, nutritious luxury for
everybody at all times. AS an antidote for
tendency to consumption it acts like o
charm and serves all the purposes intended
to be served by cod-liver oil with much
greater certainty and effect. Where sweet
cream can be had cod-liver oil is never
needed.
Prepare trees for planting by cutting the
tops back in proportion to the amount of
injury done to the roots which is generally
from one-half to two-thirds of the entire
top On this pruning all shoots should be
entirely cut away that are not needed for
the formation of perfect head, and the
others cut back one-half to two-thirds of
their length.
Are you going to try few sheep, in
ouires the line SyOfb Tndicator so as TO
make some mutton and give the family rest
from the regulation salt pork they have had
about 335 days in the year. to, eat down the
briars and fence corner weeds; to leave a
little of the best fertilizer here and there
where it will do the most good, and to raise
some staple wool that is ripe for the market
and put spot cash into the family exchequer
at time of year when scarcely anything
else does.